Majid Ali, M.D.

New York 212-873-2444

New Jersey . 201-996-0027

BEWARE!

If you think, diabetes is a sugar problem, tests done for blood sugar levels for screening for diabetes will be misleading most of the time.

The diagnosis of diabetes will be delayed for five, ten, or more years.

If you are overweight, it will be much more difficult to lose weight.

Unless you are at your optimal weight, undetected insulin toxicity will injure all your body organs to varying degrees until diabetes is diagnosed and treated for years, usually five to ten or more years.

Figure 8 (bottom) illustrates a zone of plasma congealing unaccompanied by any cellular elements of the blood (seemingly a “spontaneous” phenomenon) in a diabetic with IHD. In our view, such congealing represents accelerated oxidative stress on plasma.

Figure 9 (top) shows some needle-like and amorphous granular microclots in a patient with unstable angina.

Figure 11 (top) shows a microclot formed by a large aggregate of platelets and congealed plasma in a patient five days after angioplasty.

Figure 12 (bottom) shows another field from the same smear and illustrates how microclots in oxidative coagulopathy grow in size when oxidative stress persists.

Figure 13 (top) and figure 14 (bottom) show two microplaques in a patient who had received three unsuccessful angioplasties for advanced IHD. Photomicrographs were taken the day after a major nosebleed. Note the compaction of necrotic debris and blood elements in microplaques as contrasted with loose structure of microclots in figure 11.